On Sat, Aug 02, 2003 at 04:09:36PM +0200, Julio M. Merino Vidal wrote:
> > Move BUILD_DEFS check to pre-extract to avoid creating work directories in
> > the fetch step.
> 
> Hmm but there are BUILD_DEFS that affect the fetch of a package (wmthemes
> comes to my mind).

Since the message suggests to "make clean" if changing
anything, I don't see this as much of a problem.

> Another solution could be to delay the cookie file creation a bit.  Or simply
> use the .extract_done cookie file instead of creating another one.  In some
> situations you will have the message repeated (doing make fetch and make
> extract manually), but IMO that's acceptable.  Don't you think so? ;)

If you prefer, you can do it like that.
 Thomas